Robin Sloan has a well-deserved reputation as a sparkly, fizzy writer, the kind that can tell a smart/smartass story infused with fantasy-genre whimsy but grounded in high-tech, contemporary settings (think here of @charliejane's gorgeous *All the Birds In the Sky*):
https://memex.craphound.com/2016/01/26/charlie-jane-anderss-all-the-birds-in-the-sky-smartass-soulful-novel/
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https://memex.craphound.com/2016/01/26/charlie-jane-anderss-all-the-birds-in-the-sky-smartass-soulful-novel/
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https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374610609/moonbound
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In this curious way, we learn of the history of the chronicler's world, and the world so far into the future that Ariel lives in - and becomes incredible consequential to.
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Flash forward 10,000 years. Ariel lives in a weird, medieval-type village, albeit one in which the peasant-types all wear high-tech performance all-weather gear...and the animals all talk.
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Even as the chronicler is trying to make sense of this anachronistic muddle, Ariel is marching towards his destiny. In short order, he finds himself in fear for his life, and then - for the first time in his life or the life of any other villager - Ariel leaves the village.
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https://pluralistic.net/2022/07/26/aislands/#dead-ringers
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https://pluralistic.net/2022/06/07/more-than-human/#umwelt
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https://memex.craphound.com/2012/11/16/mr-penumbras-24-hour-bookstore-the-perfect-nerdish-fantasy/
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https://memex.craphound.com/2017/09/05/sourdough-a-delicious-story-about-nerdism-and-the-flesh-by-robin-mr-penumbra-sloan/
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